Seneb- Kay was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Second Intermediate Period, his tomb at Abydos which has provided the first known king’s tomb of pharaonic Egypt that included decorated imagery in the burial chamber.

The scenes depicted on the wall allow us to identify this previously unknown ruler along with a group of seven similar tombs that can be attributed to an Upper Egyptian Dynasty that survived for approximately half a century during a period of pronounced territorial fragmentation in the Nile Valley.

The book examines the architecture and artifacts associated with these tombs as well as presents an osteological analysis of the bodies of Seneb-Kay and the other anonymous individuals buried at South Abydos